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Quotes by Lewis Carroll

"Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before! Well, now that we have seen each other, if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."

- Lewis Carroll

Belief

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

Compassion

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'"

- Lewis Carroll

Compassion

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

Compassion

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

- Lewis Carroll

Self-awareness

"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see."

- Lewis Carroll

Self-awareness

"And how do you know that you're mad? To begin with, said the Cat, a dog's not mad. You grant that? I suppose so, said Alice. Well then, the Cat went on, you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."

- Lewis Carroll

Self-awareness

"Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else."

- Lewis Carroll

Self-awareness

"But it's no use now, thought poor Alice, to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!"

- Lewis Carroll

Self-awareness

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

Personal Growth

"I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then"

- Lewis Carroll

Personal Growth

"You're not the same as you were before, he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness."

- Lewis Carroll

Personal Growth

"I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning, said Alice a little timidly; but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

Personal Growth

""It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.""

- Lewis Carroll

Personal Growth

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make."

- Lewis Carroll

Courage

"Curiouser and curiouser."

- Lewis Carroll

Inspiration

"Curiouser and curiouser! Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."

- Lewis Carroll

Inspiration

"Autumn frosts have slain July."

- Lewis Carroll

Adversity

"When you are describing a shape, or sound, or tint, don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint. And learn to look at all things with a sort of mental squint."

- Lewis Carroll

Creativity

"And how many hours a day did you do lessons? said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day, said the Mock Turtle: nine the next, and so on. What a curious plan! exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day."

- Lewis Carroll

Learning

"If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there."

- Lewis Carroll

Choice

"Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then it doesn’t matter.’"

- Lewis Carroll

Choice

"Where should I go? -Alice. That depends on where you want to end up. - The Cheshire Cat."

- Lewis Carroll

Choice

"Cheshire Puss, she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. Come, it's pleased so far, thought Alice, and she went on. Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I don't much care where— said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat. —so long as I get SOMEWHERE, Alice added as an explanation. Oh, you're sure to do that, said the Cat, if you only walk long enough."

- Lewis Carroll

Choice

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”"

- Lewis Carroll

Connection to Earth

"In the End We Only Regret the Chances We Didn’t Take."

- Lewis Carroll

Aspirations

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."

- Lewis Carroll

Ambition

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."

- Lewis Carroll

Insight

"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

Change

"Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

- Lewis Carroll

Optimism

"Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!"

- Lewis Carroll

Optimism

"For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

- Lewis Carroll

Optimism

"Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”"

- Lewis Carroll

Optimism

"​​For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

- Lewis Carroll

Optimism

"In the End We Only Regret the Chances We Didn’t Take"

- Lewis Carroll

Reflection

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take."

- Lewis Carroll

Reflection

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, says the White Queen to Alice."

- Lewis Carroll

Reflection

"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."

- Lewis Carroll

Wisdom

""In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.""

- Lewis Carroll

Taking Risks

"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."

- Lewis Carroll

Joy

"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens...that whatever you say to them, they always purr."

- Lewis Carroll

Joy

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."

- Lewis Carroll

Self-improvement

"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."

- Lewis Carroll

Self-improvement

"Come back! the Caterpillar called after her. I've something important to say. This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar."

- Lewis Carroll

Self-care

"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."

- Lewis Carroll

Adaptation

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

Contribution

"If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there."

- Lewis Carroll

Philosophy

"Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?"

- Lewis Carroll

Philosophy

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

- Lewis Carroll

Philosophy

"The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings"

- Lewis Carroll

Philosophy

"Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."

- Lewis Carroll

Philosophy

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it"

- Lewis Carroll

Philosophy

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

- Lewis Carroll

Philosophy

"Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

- Lewis Carroll

Imagination

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

- Lewis Carroll

Imagination

"Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again — Echo still the joyful sound 'Peace on Earth, good-will to men!'"

- Lewis Carroll

Peace

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.""

- Lewis Carroll

Nature

"Do you suppose she's a wildflower?"

- Lewis Carroll

Nature

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."

- Lewis Carroll

Nature

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."

- Lewis Carroll

Nature